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Through the Portal of Place with Daniel Christian Wahl

We speak with biologist, whole-systems designer, and author Daniel Christian Wahl, whose book Designing Regenerative Cultures has inspired changemakers and communities worldwide. Together they explore how regeneration moves beyond sustainability — not as a brand or technique, but as life’s innate process of creating the conditions for more life.Daniel reflects on emergence and complexity, the…

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The Ecology of Meaning with Jean-Philippe Steeger

What if the way we speak, listen, and relate could regenerate culture itself? In this episode of Voices of Emergence, we sit down with Jean-Philippe Steeger—narrative practitioner, facilitator, and founder of Perspectivist—to explore communication as a living, relational art. Drawing from his personal story and professional work at the intersection of systems change, story, and…

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Mamadou Kwidjim Toure

From Scarcity to Ubuntu with Mamadou Touré

https://youtu.be/blwUNoe8QvQ What happens when ancestral wisdom meets frontier tech? In this conversation, Mamadou Touré — founder of Ubuntu Tribe — lays out a living philosophy of “shared prosperity” where finance becomes regenerative, transparent, and truly inclusive. We explore: Ubuntu as a practical operating system for business (“I am because we are”) Why Western finance skews…

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Ruan (Ra) James Kemp

Emergence After Emergency, with Ryan “Ra” James Kemp

https://youtu.be/hTPdKL-dZXs What if emergence wasn’t a trend, but a remembering? What if complexity is not something to solve, but to compost? In this rich and deeply poetic conversation, we sit with Ryan (Ra) James Kemp, a systems futurist, relational architect, and cultural integration guide who walks between quantum systems, indigenous cosmologies, regenerative design, and embodied…

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Virginia Vigliar

Beyond Binaries – Virginia Vigliar on Attention, Awe, and the Work of Connection

https://youtu.be/t66b2Sbm-qo In a world built on speed, separation, and distraction, what happens when we pause long enough to feel the world again? Writer and researcher Virginia Vigliar explores what it means to live with attention, to move with awe, and to reclaim the quiet power of connection. Known for her sensorial essays and poetic activism,…

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Ida Faldbakken

Ida Faldbakken: From Impact to Wisdom | Daring, Lineage & Creative Resilience in an AI Age

What does it take to lead from courage when the old system makes one last stand?  In this episode, cultural futurist and ecosystem builder Ida Faldbakken joins us to explore daring as a practice, naming what’s hard, finding beauty in the mess, and cultivating creative resilience in a world moving fast. We go deep on:…

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Silke von Brockhausen

Silke von Brockhausen on Healing Systems Through Community, Embodiment, and Listening

https://youtu.be/XCC5OmWNP8g In this deeply resonant episode, we sit with Silke von Brockhausen—a regenerative leader, facilitator, and former UN insider who’s spent two decades navigating crises from Sierra Leone to Afghanistan. Silke shares her journey from institutional peacebuilding into the living waters of regeneration, where healing systems begins with healing ourselves. Together, we explore what it…

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Bayo Akomolafe on Cracks, Tricksters, and Dancing Sideways with Collapse

https://youtu.be/7QItXErkd00 What if the cracks in our world weren’t problems to fix, but portals to step through? In this mythic, poetic, and gently disorienting conversation, Bayo Akomolafe invites us into the liminal, into the spaces between collapse and emergence, between logic and story, between the human and more-than-human. We explore what it means to become…

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Lisanne Buik

Designing Gracious AI with Lisanne Buik

https://youtu.be/7fhYNEokTFI In this episode, we sit down with futurist and visionary Lisanne Buik, founder of the Gracious AI philosophy. Lisanne shares her journey from tech entrepreneurship and burnout to receiving a transformative vision that reshaped her approach to technology. Together, we explore: What it means to design technology with grace rather than control How feminine…

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Carl Hayden Smith

Hyperhumanism, Endo-Technologies, and the Future of Consciousness, with Carl Hayden Smith

https://youtu.be/mO01BVw1Ls8?si=hsOEOXTVTmjOZA2G What does it truly mean to be human in an age of artificial intelligence, cyberdelics, and immersive technologies?In this electrifying conversation, we’re joined by Carl Hayden Smith—professor, researcher, and mythic technologist—whose work spans extended-state DMT research, journaling as consciousness architecture, and a framework he calls Hyperhumanism: a radical alternative to transhumanism that honors our…

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